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Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit this week against a former Trump White House aide over his alleged role in the laptop data scandal, which the first son’s attorneys blasted as a “sustained, unhinged and obsessed campaign” to advance an “extremist” agenda.
The 14-page complaint filed in California federal court Wednesday accuses Garrett Ziegler, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, of violating the state’s computer fraud and data laws by accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” that belonged to Hunter, according to the suit viewed by The Post.
Ziegler and 10 other unnamed defendants ”spent countless hours accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they do not own,” the filing claims.
Federal prosecutors have indicted Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, on gun charges, court documents show.
Biden was indicted in Delaware federal court on three counts tied to the possession of a gun while using narcotics.
Two counts are tied to Biden allegedly filing a form claiming that he was not using illegal drugs at the time he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. The third count alleges that he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic.
On page 4 of this document, we find the following text:
Iran maintains its intent to plot attacks against current and former US government officials in retaliation for the 2020 death of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGCQF) Commander and designated foreign terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Iran relies on individuals with pre-existing access to the United States for surveillance and lethal plotting—using dual nationals, members of criminal networks, and private investigators—and has attempted plots that do not require international travel for operatives. In August 2022, the DOJ indicted an IRGC-QF member for allegedly conspiring to assassinate a former US National Security Advisor between late 2021 to mid‑2022. Iran’s surrogate Lebanese Hizballah also called for revenge against the United States for Soleimani’s death.
Iran is pissed at Donald Trump as his administration played a key role, IIRC, in the assessination of Soleimani. Trump was quite proud of it.
Now, $6,000,000,000,000 has been paid into the hands of a rouge state that hs stated its intention to kill US officials, namely the most hated and perceived threat to the ruling party whom they are persecuting mercilessly via illegal means.
So, it is possible that that payoff is essentially the payment on a contract on the life of Donald Trump? If he's taken out by a "rogue foreign power," the left's biggest perceived problem is solved and they can claim to have clean hands.
That $6,000,000,000 didn't make sense to me at first; now it all seems to come together.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: nugget1
Though that money could also be bribe money so that Joey-Joe and the Biden bunch don't get whacked.
After all why pay Iran money when you can save a ton of that money by hiring Wagner, Antifa, Atomwaffen, or many of the other private military groups out there.
The nation’s biggest technology executives on Wednesday loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who organized the private forum on Capitol Hill as part of a push to legislate artificial intelligence, said he asked everyone in the room — including almost two dozen tech executives, advocates and skeptics — whether government should have a role in the oversight of artificial intelligence, and “every single person raised their hands, even though they had diverse views,” he said.
Congress should do what it can to maximize AI’s benefits and minimize the negatives, Schumer said,
And only government can be there to put in guardrails.”
Other executives attending the meeting were Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Musk said the meeting “might go down in history as being very important for the future of civilization.”
originally posted by: Thoughtful2
a reply to: Observationalist
#765
Watch the water.
This is eerie.
Derna, Libya Flood- 20K possibly dead
No doubt they will blame this on climate change when two dams breaking has caused so much destruction and death.
I don't know about you but this has the feelz of Lahina. What if they wanted a clean slate to work from to implement another smart city?
The fact that the MSM is not covering this means something must be up.
No Warning system, no evacuation plans
You're the fire and the flood And I always feel you in my blood Everything is fine When your head's resting next to mine, next to mine You're the fire and the flood
I've been getting used to waking up here
Anywhere I go, there you are
Six days after the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed that officials in the FBI, CDC, the White House, and the COVID-19 Response Team likely violated the First Amendment by “coercing and significantly encouraging ‘social-media platforms to censor disfavored [speech],'” the Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to step in.
The Biden administration’s SCOTUS application has now responded that the “sweeping” injunction “flouts bedrock principles of Article III, the First Amendment, and equity” and is both “startling” and “radical” in scope:
The implications of the Fifth Circuit’s holdings are startling. The court imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to use the bully pulpit to address matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to address threats to the Nation’s security, and on the CDC’s ability to relay public-health information at platforms’ request. And the Fifth Circuit’s holding that platforms’ content-moderation decisions are state action would subject those private actions to First Amendment constraints — a radical extension of the state-action doctrine.
Section 1.
The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Section 2.
The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Prelogar, highlighting the “fundamental distinction between persuasion and coercion,” (her emphasis), also framed the Fifth Circuit’s ruling as an encroachment on the presidency and a threat to the separation of powers:
A central dimension of presidential power is the use of the Office’s bully pulpit to seek to persuade Americans — and American companies — to act in ways that the President believes would advance the public interest. President Kennedy famously persuaded steel companies to rescind a price increase by accusing them of “ruthless[ly] disregard[ing]” their “public responsibilities.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, News Conference 30 (Apr. 11, 1962), perma.cc/M7DL-LZ7N. President Bush decried “irresponsible” subprime lenders that shirked their “responsibility to help” distressed homeowners. The White House, President Bush Discusses Homeownership Financing (Aug. 31, 2007), perma.cc/DQ8B-JWN4. And every President has engaged with the press to promote his policies and shape coverage of his Administration. See, e.g., Graham J. White, FDR and the Press (1979).
Prelogar argued that the Fifth Circuit did not take care to draw the distinction between coercion and persuasion and, in doing so, the appellate court embraced the very kind of “expansive theories of state action” that SCOTUS has “warned against.”
originally posted by: nugget1
A terrorist attack would leave Americans-and Biden-blameless. Iranian revenge would be the perfect solution to taking out Trump.